So you’ve decided to take the plunge and learn Spanish. That’s fantastic, but you may find yourself asking the question many people ask. Where do I start? What’s a wanna-be Spanish speaker supposed to do? Every week I meet Spanish students and speakers that ask me “How did you learn Spanish?”. Nearly everyone finds the answer quite surprising. Soy …

I run a Spanish Meet Up group and every week the same question comes up, “How long have you been studying Spanish?” And my answer is always the same: Llevo casi 10 años aprendiendo español I’ve been learning Spanish for almost 10 years Some of you may be surprised to see that you can answer that question with the verb …

My previous two post covered how to say could have and should have in Spanish. Here are the links for those posts: How to say Should Have in Spanish How to say Could Have in Spanish Today we’ll finish off this series by looking at how to say Would Have in Spanish. HOW TO SAY WOULD HAVE IN SPANISH …

Today we’re going to talk about how to say should have in Spanish. There are two ways to say should have in Spanish, but you’ve probably only been taught one, and both ways use the verb deber. The first way to say “should have” in Spanish is by using deber in the conditional tense: deber (conditional) + haber + past …

There are tons of articles about many aspects of the Spanish language, but I rarely see anything written about how to say would have, could have and should have, so over the next couple of posts we’re going to take a look at this. We’ll start with learning how to say could have in Spanish. HOW TO SAY COULD HAVE …

In my last post I wrote about Tips for learning the Spanish Subjunctive Tense. Today we’re going to take a look at reflexive verbs. I remember having boatloads of problems with reflexive verbs in the beginning of my Spanish studies. I can’t say I’ve mastered the subject, but I’ve certainly learned a lot. Today I’m going to try and put on …

Learning the subjunctive can be hard. There are so many rules, a whole new set of verb conjugations and tons of subjunctive triggers. It’s a lot to deal with and I still have occasional night terrors from my experiences working towards getting a firm grasp on the subjunctive. In this article I’m not going to teach you the subjunctive, but …